I hope you’ve had a chance to try a couple Expanded Thinking keys from the previous lists. I don’t do all of them every day or even every week but seem to cycle through them over the course of a year. During my recovery from alcohol, several from this list became a framework for maintaining…
Category: Coping
How we deal with circumstances, fear, finances, spirituality, transition & loss
Bust Winter Blues With 8 Expanded Thinking Keys (Part 1)
How is your new year starting out? Did you have any favorite highlights from 2025? What do you hope to accomplish in 2026? A quick shout out to some long-time followers: Karyl, Sue H-m, mage1999, Mike, and Tony Self. I’m happy to see you all! Right now on my slab of the concrete jungle, we’re…
For The Girls: To Your Health!
It’s been two years since I signed up with Women for Sobriety New Life Program. I’d been sober for about six years by then, but one morning I suddenly felt “at risk.” I’d tried AA several years before. As one who understands the profound and lasting effect of words, I could not embrace the hypnotic…
Where The High Road Takes You
A warm welcome to Sharon’s Writers Tidbits, Jeremy Empie, DHtracybrinkman, and Tony “T-Bird” Burgess. It’s great having you join us! I stood outside this morning looking at a marigold plant with two blooms. One facing down, the other looking up. One looking tired and beat down, the other appearing to be filled with joy and…
Your Energizers
How is your summer going? What do you like about it so far? One sizzling summer day at my old job in collections, I was on the phone asking a new client why she was unable to pay her car note. Her simple explanation was that the air conditioning had gone out in her apartment,…
What could change your life?
An author friend sent me a sheet titled, “What if a question could change your life?” She has not been a fan of beginning of the year resolutions, nor have I. The biggest reason being they seem to have little sticking power. My friend went on to share the idea of setting an intention is…
Changing Up
Embracing change encourages growth and resilience.
Arise and Shine
Driving home in the hilly country after working a third shift job, James dozed off behind the wheel. His family became alarmed when he hadn’t returned and began calling his job and friends and finally the police. James was found in a ditch, onconscious, barely alive. They rushed him to a hospital where he was…
Busyness vs. Rest
I like to keep busy. Over the course of my life, I’ve held several jobs simultaneously and once it was up to four. The reasons are the same two for most people: debt and bills. Even when my main focus was homeschooling my daughter, I worked odd jobs and threw pots in my ceramics studio….
Juli Ocean 